Impacts of bottom trawling on carbon cycling in the seafloor: a case study in the NW Mediterranean Sea
Speaker: Dr. Margot E. White, Assistant Professor, UBC EOAS Fisheries play a vital role in providing food to communities worldwide. However, demersal fisheries in particular, which operate along the seafloor, […]
Adaptive management, rightsholder involvement and whole-ecosystem experiments are key for sustainable freshwater recreational fisheries: examples from Germany
Speaker: Dr. Robert Arlinghaus Fisheries Professor Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Integrative Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys) The complexity of […]
UBC Climate Connections
Want to make a positive environmental change, but not sure how your career fits in? Join us for Climate Connections! By talking to UBC alumni and industry experts from all […]
Community-led oyster farms in Fiji – Can they deliver multiple benefits?
Speaker: Dr. Veronica Lo, IISD The deepening climate change and biodiversity loss crises, intertwined with destructive intensive fishing and aquaculture practices, necessitate new ways of meeting food security and […]
Encounters and Serendipity: A Snapshot of My Career
I finished my PhD in Botany at Duke University in 1985. My challenge is thus summarizing over 40 years of scientific research in 45 minutes. As a PhD student, I […]
Suzuki at 90: In Conversation with Gloria Macarenko
At 90 years old, David Suzuki continues to provoke new thinking and promote more urgent action by all of us concerned about the impact of climate change — and what it portends for […]
UBC Reads Sustainability with Kate Marvel | Human Nature
A public lecture using nine emotions to explore the science and stories behind climate change. Live on stage for her first reading and public talk in Canada, Kate Marvel offers […]
Film Screening: YINTAH – A Decade of Wet’suwet’en Resistance
Spanning more than a decade, YINTAH follows Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham as their nation reoccupies and protects their ancestral lands from the Canadian government and several of […]
Archaeological investigations and ecological modelling into pre-contact (1792 CE) Tsleil-Waututh stewardship of Burrard Inlet, BC, Canada
Speaker: Dr. Meaghan Efford, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries Modelling past ecosystem baselines and ecosystem change over time can demonstrate the cumulative effects of anthropogenic impacts to […]
Assessing policy implementation: a case study of global trade in marine fishes
Speaker: Dr. Sarah Foster, Project Seahorse Project Seahorse has developed a novel scheme for analysing policy implementation across four Levels: technical outputs (tools and capacity building); policy outcomes (governance changes); field […]
